Tapping Your Inner Futurist
The Futures of Government IT Experiences
Garry Golden@garrygolden
#GovITSym
PDF: garrygolden.com/December6
Next StepsDrivers of Change:Data & Blockchain
In the News
Visioning & Backcasting
Planning, Goal Setting & Roadmapping
Transformation Management
Forecasts(Trend Extrapolation)
Scenarios (Alternative Assumptions)
Horizon Scanning STEEP Category Signals from: SocietyTechnologyEnvironment EconomyPolitics
Emerging Issues Analysis(Will we do xyz?)
Indicator Analysis (Leading vs Lagging)
Investigate Imagine Inspire
Fundamentals of Foresight
In the News
Nvidia and Singapore’s Department of Public Safety are piloting a ‘Micro Drone’ Fleet that citizens can request as an aerial escort until their destination.
True False
Creepy Line or Compelling Outcomes
Is this dynamic inevitable for …
How do we… tell our story of bringing value to communities tell our story of value to internal agency team integrate data + interventions near the creepy line? broker innovative partnerships?
Slow Pace of Fast Change
Big Ideas to Explore for Future Government IT Experiences
Blockchain & Smart Contracts for Trusted Transactions
Data + AI Driven Innovation
(Bridge of Graph Analytics)
1993
Social Norms for theAnonymous-Access Web
2008
Social Norms & the Social Web
Everyone knows I’m working on some
personal growth issues
How do government services and our communities evolve around experiences that help drive outcomes & personal behavior change?
Who will deliver the nudges and prescriptive analytics?
Race to Build Intelligent Assistants
“…it is clear that the most powerful technology companies areinvesting immense resources to make virtual intelligent assistantsubiquitous before the end of the decade”
- Daniel Nadler, CEO of Kensho
Phase One: 2018 – 2021
Rolling Eyes at those Silly Chatbots
DoNotPay
DoNotPay has already proven successful throughout the U.S. and U.K., having already helped to overturn around 400,000 tickets.
Phase One: 2018 – 2021
Rolling Eyes at those Silly Chatbots
Phase One: 2018 – 2021
Rolling Eyes at those Silly Chatbots
Assumption to Explore
By 2020 – bots will deliver small nudges that government project outcomes
Embracing a New Learning Curve of Creepy + Compelling Futures: Explore Risks and Liabilities
(e.g. avoiding algorithmic bias) Understand service design for conversation-based government services Road mapping for automation of simple questions Hiring Experience Designers with Inclusive Mission
(Cognitive-Apps-as-Service)
Phase Two: 2020 - 2027
AI in the CloudTransforms Idea of
Knowledge Work
Embracing a New Learning Curve of Creepy + Compelling Futures: Top-down mandate for augmenting work experiences with performance support Understand cultural issues (e.g. pride in work; role of managers) Creating data sets to train AI software
If this becomes true…
What is our Bridge Strategy?
Humanizing AI (Cultures Eats Automation Strategy)
Creating “Knowledge Graphs” & “Experience Graphs”
Assumptions to Explore
By 2022, half of government workers will use Intelligent Assistants
By 2022, 40% of citizen to government engagements will be AI-mediated.
Connected Data is foundation for outcomes-based community services and government experiences
Row & Column Thinking Graph Thinking
Graph Thinking (Database) = Understanding Relationships + Connections
Adam Edwards
Actors Meetup
Chantel Johnson
St Paul
Music Review
Liked
Node
Relationship
Liked
Graph Analytics = Mirror the Real World to Reveal Influencer Profiles, Decision Pathways and Recommendations
Longitudinal-based Graph Applications
Graph data strategy to avoid ‘getting lost in system’?
Link Graph
Social Graph
Interest Graph
Health Graph
Learning Graph
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Transportation Graph
Industries & Innovators are Connecting Dots
Economic Graph
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Who might know more about our community dynamics than we do?
What information are they missing that we might provide?
Government IT Innovations
Knowledge Graphs Experience Graphs
Emergence of Enterprise Knowledge Graphs
A linked data feed of Thomson Reuters financial content sets with a pre-identified set of relationships, helping you to uncover previously undetected connections within and across data sets.
Learning More – Graph Databases & Analytics
Government IT Innovations
Knowledge Graphs Experience Graphs
Social Data
Health Data
Learning & Life Experience Data
Device + Place Data
“I did this…”
Course Real World
3 hours
300 hours
“I did this…”Statements
Training to Performance Outcomes: Experience Data Appears Inside Workplace
Seamless Integrated into Software products Connected Tools Manager & Team Tools
“I did this…”Statements
Lucy read an article on virtual reality for aging populations Lucy opened an Evernote folder on aging solutions Lucy watched a Youtube video on Social VR Experiences for Aging Boomers Lucy interviewed the Director of MIT’s Age Lab Lucy attended an MIT workshop on VR simulations Lucy wore an ‘aging suit’ at MIT Age Lab Lucy mentored with the Head of Innovation at AARP Lucy designed a new VR social space using Facebook Oculus dev kit Lucy won an Webbie award for Social VR platform Lucy taught a Coursera MOOC on Universal Design and VR experiences Lucy was hired as head of Social VR for Aging Populations at Facebook
Scenario: Talent Embraces Experience Capture Analytics
Scenario: Government IT Builds Out the Next Valuable Digital Asset
Experience Graph
Social Graph
Population Graphs
Graph Thinking + Analytics could help to transform: Recommendation Real-time Responses
(e.g. Event happens; Which stakeholders effected?) Social Services Infrastructure
By 2025, what new types of questions might we be able to ask about our communities using graph thinking?
Government IT - Graphs
Slow Pace of Fast Change
Big Ideas to Explore for Future Government IT Experiences
Blockchain & Smart Contracts (Integration & Decentralized Govt Applications)
Data + AI Driven Innovation
(Bridge of Graph Analytics)
By 2025, 10% of of Global GDP will be orchestrated by blockchain applications.
It Was Hard to Explain the Internet in 1994
Internet of Trusted Transactions
Internet of Files (Websites)
Internet of Social Networks
Evolution of the Web & Government IT Services
In Shared Secure Records We Trust
T = 0
Ledger of Keys &Asset Transactions
Smart Contracts for Business Process Automation!
Network Consensus on who did what…
Learning Curve: Development Platforms
Public Private
iTunes without iTunes
Smart Contracts disperse payments
Blockchain Use Case: MarketplacesDecentralized exchanges to disrupt the traditional third-party role. *Low fees may still apply.
ebaywithout ebay
Distributed Marketplaces
Energy Trading Network
P2P Energy Trading
Blockchain Use Case: Department of Motor Vehicles Decentralized exchange for vehicle registration
Population Health Data Exchanges
Blockchain Use Case: Financial Inclusion / Economic Identity
Governments reduce the cost and complexity via: Identity (Passports; Birth certificates; Small Business) Asset Registries (including land) Voting Procurement IoT and Building Management Regulatory + Compliance Automation Community Crypto Currencies (Financial inclusion) Cyber Security / Access Control to Documents DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations)
Blockchain Use Case: Government Services
Source
Embrace and Explore the Jargon and Hype!
Be Prepared: Ideology Drives Innovative Thinking
Assumption to Explore (even if it confusing!)
By 2022 the public sector will use the blockchain for decentralized applications (DApps) and smart contracts to:
Reduce operation costs Drive Public Private Partnerships Transform peer-to-peer and business led transactions Confront cybersecurity issues Transform voting system Branding: Transparency + Accountability
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•Incumbent mindset
•Incremental Improvement
•Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt & Denial
On the Plateau ‘Managing the Decline’
•Entrepreneurial mindset
•Prototyping Transformative Change
•Failing Forward
Big Bets,Small Steps
Step # 1 Create a Healthy Sense of Urgency & Culture Aligned Around Anticipation
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Urgency
Not Urgent Urgent –Critical
Not Ready
Ready
SomewhatReady
Important
Step #2: Take a Pulse Check on Emerging Trends vs Organizational Appetite
Theme #1
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Theme #4
Step #3 Start a Signals Team: Follow Those Who Imagine Different Futures
Graph AnalyticsConnected Data
Blockchain & Smart Contracts
@onboardhealth
Industry Issues on Talent Development
Following the success of HP’s Chief Innovation Officer Phil McKinney, generate a weekly ‘Killer Question’ email message or ‘Twitter’ conversation that spurs conversation about the future of government IT experiences.
Step #4
Use ‘Killer Questions’ to Brainstorm Ideas
What is a government department that does not exist today but will be our most innovative citizen lever of change in five years?
Which popular consumer brand today could make one of our government departments irrelevant in five years?
Be Able to Tell Stories of Your Failures
Step #5 Host a FailFare!